A Master-Builder On the Nile: Being a Record of the Life And Aims of John ...
A Master-Builder On the Nile: Being a Record of the Life And Aims of John ...
Rena L Hogg
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Mykrs: Si. Paul. WE turn now to that phase of Dr. Hogg's life which has gripped most strongly the heart and imagination of the people amongst whom he laboured. The " Hoj " of the villagers is a man who had "no continuing city," who was "in joumeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst." " In recalling," says Ruskin, " the impressions we have received from the works of man, after a lapse of time long enough to involve... in obscurity all but the most vivid, it often happens that we find a strange pre-eminence and durability in many upon whose strength we had little calculated, and that points of character which had 211 Digiti zed by Google 81« THE CARE OF ALL THE CHURCHES escaped the detection of the judgment, become developed under the waste of memory." At first glance such a picture of the man as the vil- lagers have preserved seems extravagantly incorrect. Four-fifths of his life in the Upper Country was such a life as we have described, that of a man bound to a central station, his recreation, preachings, and study, and his daily work teaching, translating, writing, and grap- pling with the indefinite sundries that are the thorn in the flesh of every man whose moments are valued with reference to some consuming central purpose.
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